Transport VII/4 Ez1 from Kleve, Kleve (Düsseldorf), Rhine Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 27/11/1943

This transport departed from Kleve on Saturday, November 27, 1943, with three Jews aboard. For reasons not fully understood, all three were evidently detained in Düsseldorf until December 15, 1943. The Theresienstadt ghetto records indicate that this transport, given VII/4 Ez as a reference, reached the ghetto on December 16, 1943, with only one deportee, Anna Neugeboren, aboard. The Roman overall VII denotes the city of origin, Düsseldorf; the numeral 4 signified the fourth transport from Düsseldorf to Theresienstadt; and the letters Ez were an abbreviation of Einzeltransport (“special transport”), i.e., a transport with few people aboard. This was the first of three Ez transports that departed from Düsseldorf, the last one setting out in late January 1945. Most “special transports” used regular passenger trains. Most of the information presented here comes from Jakob Neugeboren’s personal dossier, a compendium on Jews from approximately 1935 onward that the Gestapo in Düsseldorf used to prepare deportation lists....